No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important thing that will happen to you will often come as… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“DW: Some critics have written that they don’t admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result of much… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on his face.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Basically it’s none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we’re on the trail of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
